A project about artists and their right to express their views freely. D. W. Dot com or to freedom. Once upon a time there was a country the largest in the world in fact it was an empire it was called soviet union shortly before it seventieth birthday it vanished from the map. It. Should be a shape shifter you shave with a good shake youll believe if you take the state over here. The soviet union had been strongly dependent on Commodity Prices but russia in the two thousand was even more so two thirds of russias exports were generated by the oil and natural gas sector. Economy could receive russias economy as a model economy that depends entirely on oil prices everyone just trades new Petroleum Products when the prices are high but if they drop the russian economy has a real problem this is very bad economics among them. To draw its neighboring countries back into its fear of influence russia sold them or oil and natural gas at knock down prices. Small gifts sustain friendships big one
Form a complex action at the center of which lies the korean u. S. Aligns. Right here in washington two years ago president obama and i laid out a vision on the way ahead for our alliance with the 60th anniversary of the korea u. S. Alliance. That was a vision of our alliance lane groundbreaking unification for the peninsula promoting cooperation across northeast asia and moving forward for the partnership, the korea u. S. Alliance says it resulting into a Dynamic Alliance by correctly adapting our two countries are growing partners as we display our dealings leadership and issue is beyond the regional scope. Our alliance has grown through mutual trust and has inspired each other. Now the alliance is leading to a common enemy. For the last 21 2 years corey and the United States have creatively resolve all our sensitive issues. We have reached an agreement on the transfer of wartime operational control wrapped up negotiations for cost sharing of u. S. Forces in korea and upgraded combin
Particular. We didnt try to take on the whole envoy question for because the conflict ones had special characteristics. But tom, youre putting your finger on a problem. Because if you looked at the number of special envoys, and its almost the same from one administration to another, youre talking about 25 or more special envoys, and if theyre all supposed to report to the secretary of state, you realize, in addition to all the regular structures, you really have an unworkable structure. [ inaudible ] yeah. So its not bad to put these under some of them under a structured bureau, and therefore have an undersecretary who is handling more of that. And i think we have to be very careful about the proliferation in to areas that, again, sometimes become more symbolic. And i think deserves more attention. On the conflict with other policies, this is very important. We tried to deal with it a little bit, Richard Haass experience working on cyprus in relationship to our relationship with turkey
Particular. We didnt try to take on the whole envoy question for because the conflict ones had special characteristics. But tom, youre putting your finger on a problem. Because if you looked at the number of special envoys, and its almost the same from one administration to another, youre talking about 25 or more special envoys, and if theyre all supposed to report to the secretary of state, you realize, in addition to all the regular structures, you really have an unworkable structure. [ inaudible ] yeah. So its not bad to put these under some of them under a structured bureau, and therefore have an undersecretary who is handling more of that. And i think we have to be very careful about the proliferation in to areas that, again, sometimes become more symbolic. And i think deserves more attention. On the conflict with other policies, this is very important. We tried to deal with it a little bit, Richard Haass experience working on cyprus in relationship to our relationship with turkey
Calls and look for your comments on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is live every day at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan will. Monday night, a Funeral Service for the late Washington Post editor ben bradlee. Speakers include popular word bob woodward. On september 23, 1972, about 9 00 p. M. , i reached john mitchell, president nixons former attorney, about a story we were running. He said he had controlled a secret fund for undercover operations of such as watergate. Mitchell was quite upset. Responding jesus several times as i read in the story. He then proceeded to let me in on important, private parts of Katharine Grahams anatomy which he said would get caught in a big fat ringer is the post printed the story. He also said we are going to do a story on all of you and hung up the phone. I called been at home ben at home. We did not much observe the chain of command. Ben interrogated me had he been drinking . I couldnt tell. Did i properly identify myself . Yes. Did i have good n